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Wells Ends 7-Up Career

When Ben H. Wells retired from the Seven-Up Company last week, it marked the end of the founding family's participation in the St. Louis producer of soda pop. Mr. Wells was a son-in-law of the late Frank Y. Gladney, one of the three men who started the company in 1929.

January 24, 1979

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